I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.

There is no art when one does something without intention.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!

Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.